Today’s Music to keep me SANE in Isolation – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

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They were a band that did not ever seem to fit in any category. They were part of the sixties underground without subscribing to it. They stood against the evils of the establishment without subscribing to the Flower Power ethics which Frank saw as equally phoney.

The used parody and satire and turned it as much on the sixties underground as they did on the establishment.

Musically they were extraordinary, experimental and based more on electronic music and Doo-wop than Blues.

They were different.

The first couple of albums were great but it was We’re Only In it For The Money which blew my mind. I played that album incessantly.

So today I’m going to be playing Frank very loud (I’m not quite so sure it’ll keep me sane though!).

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  3. But better yet, founds my original LP of Jimmy Carl Black’s “When do we get paid?” that one is right up there with Ed Sander’s “Beer cans on the Moon.” “When’ had been hiding in a box of “junk records” for 30 years. Almost went to charity shop with the rest. My wife went on a clean out jag…Nope, no throw away until, I’ve looked through it. lol

    1. Junk records?? I don’t understand the term – unless you mean stuff like Val Doonican? How could Jimmy get into a box of junk?

      1. Junk records=Public service announcement LPs, some badly damaged LPs (water ruined covers and crap stuck to vinyl). Jimmy Carl got stuck there by accident. So became long time come no hear, so to speak.

      2. It’s not an album I’m familiar with Jeff but Jimmy performed in Hull with the Grandmothers and I was fortunate enough to get him to sign my Zappa albums and we had a little chat about the delights of German beer.

      3. When I was 18, on “Mothers day” a concert by Frank and MOI, ran into Jimmy Carl Black in a restroom at the venue. I was with friends, and as Jimmy Carl was leaving, he turned and asked if any of us were going to the Democratic Convention in Chicago. he said, “Should be quite a show.” 1968, it was quite a show. didn’t make that one, thankfully.

      4. Though your brother’s bound and gagged
        And they’ve chained him to a chair
        Won’t you please come to Chicago just to sing?
        It was quite a show.

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